Jennifer Egan

Time Is, Indeed, a Goon

Ann Bauer | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Jennifer Egan, Regret, Middle Age, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Children, Breakups, Divorce, Books News
Ann Bauer

There are bad memories, too. My once-strong young husband lying on our kitchen floor, telling me he was done and bone tired and once he got up he was going to leave.

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Join Our Live Chat With SF Native And Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Jennifer Egan

Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Huffpost San Francisco Book Club, Huffpost Sf Book Club, Jennifer Egan Live Chat, Jennifer Egan, Huffington Post San Francisco Book Club, Huffington Post Book Club, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan Huffington Post, Jennifer Egan Webcast, A Visit From the Goon Squad Discussion Questions, San Francisco News

Memo to HuffPost SF book club members: We hope you've started reading our first pick, Jennifer Egan's mesmerizing Pulitzer Prize-winning tale A Visit ...

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These Are the 99 Percent Of The Literary World

New York Magazine | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Occupy Writers, Jennifer Egan, Francine Prose, James Wolcott, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Occupy Wall Street, We Are the 99 Percent, Fifty News

A group of writers has started a website called Occupy Writers in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protests....

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Carly Schwartz

This Year's Pulitzer Prize Winner On Why Our City Is Like No Other

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Jennifer Egan Pulitzer Prize, Jennifer Egan Litquake, Jennifer Egan San Francisco, Jennifer Egan, San Francisco Around Town, Jennifer Egan Sf, My Sf, Pulitzer Prize 2011, Jennifer Egan Goon Squad, San Francisco News

Jennifer Egan's had the kind of career most writers can only dream about. The literary world has embraced her with accolades like a National Book ...

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Help Us Pick the Culture Game Changers of 2011

Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Zaha Hadid, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Chase Finlay, Jennifer Egan, Andrew Bolton, 2011-Game-Changers, Harold Koda, Culture News

HuffPost's Game Changers series celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 12 categories who, whether working in the spotlight or under th...

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The Best Moments From The New Yorker Festival With Arrested Development, Jonathan Franzen, Steve Martin And More

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Arrested Development New Yorker, Slideadbigshot, Arrested Development, Junot Diaz, Arrested Development Movie, Jennifer Egan, St. Vincent, Arrested Development Reunion, David Cronenberg, The National, Steve Martin, Video, New Yorker, New Yorker Festival 2011, Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker Festival, The New Yorker Arrested Development, Culture News

The New Yorker put cultural figures from across the spectrum in the hot seat this past weekend for their whirlwind festival, playing to intimate crowd...

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Conversations on Practice

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Glenn Kurtz, Rebecca Goldstein, New York, Richard Sennett, Local Events, McNally Jackson, Jennifer Egan, Community, Events, Daniel Mendelsohn, Dani Shapiro, Laura Miller, New York News
Jennifer Hamady

No one can tell you how to become a writer or an artist. The only path is to do it, to think and feel deeply about it, and to persevere.

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Jo Piazza

Jennifer Egan On GoodReads: Can An Online Forum Really Be A Book Club?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jo Piazza | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Jennifer Egan a Visit From the Goon Squad, Goodreads Book Club, Books, Goodreads Online Book Club, Online Book Club, Jennifer Egan Pulitzer Prize, Jennifer Egan, Book Clubs, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Culture News

Online book club seems like an oxymoron. Book clubs after all are supposed to represent a kind of social gathering where like-minded people sit down t...

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A Writer's Must-Read List

artistsroad.wordpress.com | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: The Writing Life, Joan Silver, Writers, Must-Read Lists, Writing, Annie Dillard, Gerald Durrell, Jennifer Egan, Phillip Lapote, Books News

What books must any writer read? That’s not for me to say. I have, however, compiled a list of works that lecturers cited as must-reads at my recent...

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17 Smart Books You Must Read This Summer

Lisa Bloom | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Emma Donoghue, Ann Fessler, Books, Summer Reads, Iris Chang, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, T. Colin Campbell, Summer Reading, Sheryl WuDunn, Isabel Wilkerson, Barbara Demick, Samantha Power, Lisa See, Jonathan Franzen, Lisa Bloom, Nora Ephron, Peggy Orenstein, Slidepollajax, Carrie Fisher, Jeannette Walls, Nicholas D. Kristof, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News
Lisa Bloom

How do you find great books to read? Here's a reading list of books that will stir you, provoke you, keep you up at night and make you late for work, and get your grey matter sizzling.

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Goodreads Partners With First Book To Fight Illiteracy

GalleyCat | Maryann Yin on July 8, 2011 10:23 AM | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Jennifer Egan, Book Clubs, Illiteracy, Goodreads Book Club, A Visit From the Goon Squad, First Book, Books News

Goodreads has partnered with First Book, a charity group whose mission is to make sure children who reside in low-income communities are able to have ...

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Top 55 Best Read List

fridayreads.com | Erin | Best Read | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Best Reads List, Swamplandia, Jennifer Egan, Margaret Atwood, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Karen Russell, Best Reads, Beauty Queens, Books News

Based on the FridayReads posts on June 10, 2011, here’s the Best Read List: ...

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Life Advice From Your Favorite Authors

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Life Advice Authors, Authors Life Advice, George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Life Advice, David Shields, Ted Conover, Gary Shteyngart, Robert Cohen, Books News

One of our go-to Monday morning reads (seriously, bookmark it) is The Days of Yore, a stellar blog that interviews artists of all stripes about the ti...

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Time 100 List Includes Six Writers (One Of Whom Is Our Very Own Arianna Huffington)

GalleyCat | Maryann Yin on April 21, 2011 12:43 PM | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: George R.R. Martin, Authors, Jennifer Egan, Amy Chua, Heidi Murkoff, Writers, Jonathan Franzen, Time 100 List, Arianna Huffington, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

The 2011 edition of the Time 100 list included six writers....

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Book To Be Adapted For TV

deadline.com | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Hbo Adaptations, Knopf, Hbo, Literary Prizes, Jennifer Egan, Visit From the Goon Squad, Book Adaptations, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

It has been some week for Brooklyn-based author Jennifer Egan. Her novel A Visit From The Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize, and she cited the HBO ser...

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Pulitzer Prize 2011: Winner Jennifer Egan On The Tedium Of Writing

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan, Days of Yore, Pulitzer Prize, Interview, Authors, Literary Prizes, Goon Squad, Bestsellers, Books News

Yesterday, the writer Jennifer Egan was announced as the 2011 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her book, A Visit From The Goon Squad. ...

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Pulitzer Prize 2011 Winners In Books: Did The Right Authors Win?

Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Pulitzer in Books, Goon Squad, Washington, Literary Prizes, Slidepollajax, Jennifer Egan, Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

So will this be your next reading list? The Pulitzer Prizes for 2011 were announced today and the results for books are in the slideshow below. If you...

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Saki Knafo

Pulitzer Prize Winners For 2011: See The Full List

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: The New York Times, Pulitzer Prizes 2011, Jennifer Egan, Media, Journalism, Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post, Eric Foner, Bruce Norris, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Boston Globe, Pulitzer Prizes, The Los Angeles Times, Pulitzer Prize 2011, Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize Winners, Media News

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, and many of the journalism awards went to venerable, well-decorated publications. The New York T...

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Jennifer Egan Wins the Tournament Of Books

Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.05.2011

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Jennifer Egan's "A Visit From the Goon Squad" was declared the winner of The Morning News' annual literary competition, The Tournament of Books, on Mo...

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Is Brooklyn the New Paris?

Paul LaRosa | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Dumbo Brooklyn, Park Slope, Brooklyn, Outdoor Cafes, Pete Hamill, Fort Greene, Cobble Hill, Jennifer Egan, A-Visit-From-the-Good-Squad, Red Hook New York, Paris, Red Hook, New York News
Paul LaRosa

I've been thinking that Brooklyn is very similar to what Paris was like nearly a century ago. The only thing missing is the ubiquitous smoke rising from the lips of the young and literary.

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Why This Man Wants To Be Insulted By Authors

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amy Sedaris, Charles D'Ambrosio, Jacob De Zoet, Insulted by Authors, Author Insults, Jennifer Egan, Bill Ryan, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Somewhere in New York this week, Bill Ryan might be found standing in line after an author's reading, waiting his turn for a few words and a signature...

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Spotted Reading In Public: What Have We Seen You Reading Recently? (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, W. Somerset Maugham, Steve Martin, NYC Subways, Helter Skelter, Evelyn Waugh, Books, Julia Child, Jennifer Egan, The Keep, The Sword of Honor, Slidepollajax, Reading, Of Human Bondage, Spotted Reading in Public, Books News

From a book about Charles Manson's murder trial to Steve Martin's autobiography, we saw you reading quite the wide array of books in the past few week...

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2011 Orange Prize Longlist For Fiction Announced: Who Will Win This Year?

The Independent | Rob Sharp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jennifer Egan, Orange Prize, 2011 Orange Prize Longlist, Orange Prize Longlist, The Tiger's Wife, Téa Obreht, Literary Prizes, Orange Prize Longlist for Fiction, Books News

Author Téa Obreht grew up in the Balkans against the backdrop of civil war. She never knew her father, and learned English from Disney films, before ...

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2011 NBCC Award Winners Announced (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 2011 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards Ceremony was held last night at 6:00 PM at The New School in Manhattan. The finalists were announc...

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Battle Royal: US vs. UK Book Covers

themillions.com | C. Max Magee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tournament of Books, Rooster Award, Lionel Shriver, Jennifer Egan, Literary Prizes, Freedom a Novel, Room, Gary Shteyngart, Emma Donaghue, Super Sad True Love Story, Jonathan Franzen, 2011 Tournament of Books, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Aimee Bender, So Much for That, Books News

Like we did last year, we're going to have a little fun comparing the U.S. and U.K. book cover designs of this year's Rooster contenders. ...

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